John Gower in England and Iberia: Manuscripts, Influences, Reception

by Robert F. Yeager

John Gower's great poem, the Confessio Amantis, was the first work of English literature translated into any European language. Occasioned by the existence in Spain of fifteenth-century Portuguese and Spanish manuscripts of the Confessio, the nineteen essays brought together here represent new and original approaches to Gower's role in Anglo-Iberian literary relations, including major studies of the Iberian manuscripts and Spanish influences on Gower's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 184384320X
• ISBN13: 9781843843207
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Length: 347 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.3"